Show misfortunes accumulate one ot of things noticed by tho the early cally philosophers wall waa that misfortunes have a sort ef f mysterious ail libity for more or loss ln III 4 seemingly gathering from no here I 1 in n nut hut ap appearing pearin g with ith unerring certainty to the inba inhabitants bitanO 0 of f the earth in a concatenation or of misery t ry modern science has ins lone done nothing in the way of explaining this phenomenon further than to agree fill the ancient observation is and now tho the soothsayers thi the beci the pyramid ey ex and the astrologers pred predict let a cataclysm surpassing uralis any that lies lias tl since in cc the ille human race am appeared upon this planet if not indeed worse than those hose that happened to the egather lum or the iho tho the direful calamity to appear r before the children of men near the close of the present century we V usually are disposed to regard such euch predictions as due to it a species of sporadic insanity that streets affects certain people known as aa cranks and to pass them by without notice but the events since the list presidential election have been no BO uniformly fraught with mith niter misfortune or and each as it succeeded bel belne no worse than its Pre predecessor decea sor that we are mo more than halt balf converted to the belief that the prophecies test rest upon some set although obscure basis we are hardly ready to believe t that hat a demo bratle ci alac electoral bumph Is 13 the disturbing cause that sets bets all ill the malevolent influences lit in the universe into active operation but the ineil table reaction react rea cuon lon of cause and will ivill not admit of at any other conclusion unless by a reversal of logic aogle uie the electo elect ceal ial triumph is the first mundane effect of tho the jec pouring turing of the villa vials of iloN however vever this may be it Is certain that the genius hus has been let out of the bottle and it if CRIa calamities may grow into tiny any worse proportions than man they already have exhibited hibi ted tho the prediction or of professor fall falb of vic vienna ina is ia likely to come true that uio the earth will collide mith niah the comet of which mill reappear in ISM and ultra ly wipe the earth out of the existence it has haa been drugging dragging alons tor for beveral millions mil llona of centuries but wo we do not lean onti nely to pessimistic view of tile the result of uko the election 0 of WS 1 for several reasons for while it la Is true that misfortune never coin comes singly it Js Is also a truism that when things aril are nt at the worst they mend and so the question hinges binges upon whether the worst has or hns not at already happened upon chich however the testimony of if the rs the magicians the necromancers tho the pyramid ex slid and this the art astrologers 0 bogers la Is and against our liopo and it 11 Is in coi tain that it if things continue e until HM as they have hm o pime eded sin since C IMS that there Is 11 little ground for hope although there is some consolation in the fact that unless millem friend it humanity ity will bunc tunc welcome a collision coU lalon with the comet amot of ISM 01 or for that matter with any comet but another reason ivason for tin livix lies in the r 1 d l tact fact that wherle ver the 1110 mind of men bp be ime mo wal wai ped through h lonk long priti aviation of ral ralphy ply and they bi be mi last if 11 lu au i with the i 1 I 1 i thai bat tha lh DAIN hop top for fo it 0 i ai ilia 1 ab ii jh h in va 7 ali u it I 1 ili f comet anil and hurt it directly at eln earth carah IT in this q a 3 li it kimt bo be admitted that balb has ms shown excellent judgment in selecting electing one that for all anona to tile the contrary cont iary la is be to lo be composed comi jOKed of meteors and besides ix la so 0 o punctual that it ills m been corning la in near proximity in ity to ti the earth carlli vrr ever c since the universe assumed a lla its present pre sent nt aspect every three years and in fact Is the only one that hiat can le ile depended upon to lo serve an a a sort ot of general to the cleveland administration again very few people realize ill alic 0 ex required to take lake it comet somewhere nc near ir the confines ot of infinity and hurt it with such ruall Prec precision lilon tha bhul t it shall lilt ill the earth directly in the center and till not lot carom calom oft off to one side mile anil thereby lose much or the de desired deal effect and while we ive still 4 have abc considerable filth faith in the deductions of f falb we confess conf esis to some dome of hla his ability ax as a marksman tor for hla his bould br be equivalent to cutting it a hair witla it a rifle bul bill lel at a distance ot of wa 1000 mile and we prefer to accept the view abat the iho pro fear in IK as much niN taken in lilb ails clary statistics 8 as n tile iho advocate ol of a single standard are proven it to have been in their scientific di 5 of tho the ut utopia pla sure pure to follow the tion of silver but it my may bo be t in deft apt of the lh professor saor that he hit has the ih element of oc chance in his hia favor for although this thin time same cocot lins ins been the earth ever since cret crt lon tion without friction I 1 it 1 li an old mayi ng that the pitcher goes too 0 often to the well Is A broken at last an anil wherefore tte 10 are not quite so disposed to at the professors giors pr cletion 8 as we otherwise would be probably for the reason that the aggregation of calam illes since the election elert lon of 1892 lu its somewhat am imbrell linb ucil ill ua avith n etli thi tha stiling f ot of worse wore yet t to a come |